Debian DSA-283-1 : xfsdump - insecure file creation

Ethan Benson discovered a problem in xfsdump, that contains administrative utilities for the XFS filesystem. When filesystem quotas are enabled xfsdump runs xfsdq to save the quota information into a file at the root of the filesystem being dumped. The manner in which this file is created is...

[SECURITY] [DSA 283-1] New xfsdump packages fix insecure file creation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 283-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 11th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

SGI IRIX "xfsdump" creates quota information files insecurely

Overview A vulnerability exists in xfsdump on SGI IRIX. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a local attacker to gain root privileges. Because other operating systems ship with xfsdump, vendors other than SGI may be affected. Description From the xfsdump man page:xfsdump backs up files an...